≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama
Director: John Woo
Year: 1989
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Just Heroes plays like a dress rehearsal for John Woo’s bullet ballet melodramas like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. The elegant camera movements, slow motion, balletic gun-fu, heroic bloodshed, and male bonding are certainly all in evidence. Too bad […]
≡ Category: Action, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Godfrey Ho
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Angel The Kickboxer is stultifyingly boring, to the point of being unwatchable. Reader, I confess that 40 minutes into this snooze fest, I skimmed through the rest of the DVD, only pausing for the fight sequences.
Don’t blaim the actors. Don’t even blaim the […]
≡ Category: *In Theaters*, Action, Drama, Mainstream, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Ridley Scott
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Let me give you the bad news upfront: Robin Hood fails as drama, action, adventure, and romance.
Robin Hood is a reminder that it’s really, really hard to make a good movie, or for that matter, any movie at all. Look at the advantages […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Mainstream, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Taylor Hackford
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The problems with Blood In Blood Out AKA Bound By Honor reveal themselves right away. Director Taylor Hackford tromps on the Chicano milieau of East Los Angeles REALLY hard. This is a mistake. Chicano culture is vibrant, dare I say even loud. You […]
≡ Category: Action, Horror, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Horror
Director: Peter Webber
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s not very surprising that Hannibal Rising is a lousy movie. For one thing, consider the source material. Author Thomas Harris, in his first two novels featuring Hannibal Lecter, elevated the thriller form to art, but something funny happened after the stunning success of […]
≡ Category: Action, Korea, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ 3 Comments
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Kwon-tae Ahn/ Kyung-Taek Kwak
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
As wonderful as Korean movies often are, and as technically proficient as they are in practically every area of filmmaking, there are some things that Koreans just can’t seem to pull off.
If they try to be cool and do something like pull off […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Horror, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Comedy
Director: Kevin Connor
Year: 1980
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Motel Hell is blessed with a couple of very good ideas. First is the character concept of Farmer Vincent, an affable salt of the earth type who has managed to convince himself that smoking human meat has social value. There’s a tremendous potential for […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Pil-Sung Yim
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Antarctic Journal has an odd subject for a Korean movie. A group of explorers, led by Choi Do-hyung (Kang-ho Song) decide to go further into the Antarctic than any previous explorers. Why? Because, as one character notes, explorers live to put themselves in extreme situations and […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Jon Avnet
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The temptation would be to pronounce this movie as righteous swill and be done with it, but that would be too easy.
This movie is an embarrassment, a blot on the careers of everyone concerned. In terms of pedigree, this movie should have been […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Girls With Guns, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, Phillipines | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Phillipines
Genre: Action/Bullet Ballet/Girls With Guns/ Martial Arts
Director: Godfrey Ho/ Phillip Ko Fei
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Poor Oshima Yukari. She’s got charisma to burn, she’s cute as a button, and she can fight, but throughout her career, she kept getting stuck propping up incompetent directors like Godfrey Ho and Phillip Ko Fei, the ‘geniuses’ […]